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Avinash Jain

Hey there! I'm Avi. I live in SF and I'm an early engineer at Quanta, a seed-stage startup backed by Accel. We're a team of 5, automating accounting for 20+ companies with a simple principle:

To answer any financial question or insight about your business, you need real-time, high quality data. To get that data, you have to do the accounting.

We're building the best source of financial data for your company. And we're closing your books faster and more accurately than any other tool or human. If you're interested in joining us, we're hiring!

Last updated: Aug 3rd, 2024

Past Experience

Eat. Code. Sleep. Repeat.
co-founder · NFT infrastucture on Solana
6m+ transactions, 40k mau
Blend
PM · innovation research in homebuying journey
co-founder · AI communication coaching platform
30k beta revenue, 2.5k speeches analyzed
executive director · led world's largest collegiate hackathon
Amazon
SWE · backend algos for the ads team
Apple
SWE · iOS features for Apple News
champion of the ping pong table

Projects

Code. Build. Hack. It's time to hack.
Gumball

Gumball

Waves

Waves

ZooKeeper

ZooKeeper

VAAS

VAAS

E.V.A.C

E.V.A.C

SyncUp

SyncUp

Talky

Talky

Iris

Iris

Guru

Guru

MedicAI

MedicAI

ICON

ICON

60Seconds

60Seconds

PinPoint

PinPoint

Rhythm

Rhythm


Teaching

"Hey guys, Avi here. Welcome back!"
founder · programming courses and videos
1m+ students, 70k subscribers, 300 hours of videos
CS 170
ugsi · taught algorithms, led discussions, made videos
Cubstart
instructor · iOS and web curriculum for beginners

Readings

Blue: highly recommend
    Three Body Problem
    Exhalations
    Ticket Masters
    Range
    Shoe Dog
    2022

    1984
    The Secret History of Food
    The Alchemist
    Born a Crime
    Old Man and the Sea
    The Two Cultures
    The Sun Also Rises
    Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    California Burning
    Eat a Peach
    Myth of Sisyphus
    The End of the World is Just the Beginning
    The Stranger
    The Dream Machine
    Tao of Pooh
    Brave New World
    The Biggest Bluff
    Crime and Punishment
    The Utopia of Rules
    The Death of Ivan Ilyich
    The Tale of Two Cities
    2023

    Debt: The First 5,000 years
    When Breath Becomes Air
    Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
    The Dark Forest
    Death's End
    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
    Stay True*
    Brother's Karamazov*
    2024

Running

2024 mileage: 452 mi · half marathon pr: 1:37:35
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Lifting

75 hard completed · 1000 lb club progress: 62%
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